Fri and Sat 10/11 Nov..........
Went to a bar and a club to mark the start of the 2 day weekend!!! started at Boston bar or something like that......was Ladies night! SAY NO MORE......it is a con to draw the females (of which there appears to be a shortage out here) of dubai to fill the rest of the bar with men!! was a bit of a meat market, so a couple of FREE beers for the girls, and we scarpered to a club ZINC in the crown Plaza hotel on Shiek Zayed Road....was cool........have to say its the first time i have been clubbing in jeans and walking boots!!!!! even if they were expensive North Face boots......still the fluid flowed!!! should have had water a bit sooner.....insted of adding an order for rum and coke and a sambuca with the bottle of water! oh well...live and learn!!! CJD described it as ordering a big mac meal and a DIET COKE!!! hahahahah we suffered for it Fri.....all good plans and all that......spose to be on a road trip.......it was a struggle to trip out of bed let alone in the car!!!! sensible heads....4am finish....mmmm....lets hit the beach BY TAXI!!!
Fujairah beach park....very nice....towels right next to the water, Hawaiian Tropic basting, SORTED! water was again crystal clear with FISHES swimming by......was awesome. the haunting of the hangover set right in til tea time, but was kerbed by the occasional swim. the beach was busy, many ex pats.....and it really filled in the evening....
Back to the flat, just chilled...early night for trip to Fujairah.

Saturday.....alarms didnt go off, so an extra stolen hour of kip was had!!!! got packed and hit the road!!! HMMMMMmmmmm well....we hit the road but got a little tied up in the roads.....you see, sign posts are not what they ought to be......consequently 2.5 hours before we managed to get out of Sharjar and on to the road towards the east coast!!! drove through the desert and surprised ourself at how fast the journey went!! Still didnt see straight sand desert!!! all the dunes have small scrub like bushes on them, but the mountains on the east coast we impressive. just before Masafi (CJD informs me, is famous for its bottled water here) we drove through the "Friday Market".....lots of stalls lining the road selling carpets, fruit, blow up animals.....(YES BLOW UP ANIMALS!) and plants.........very quaint!
Continuing to Fujairah and tried to find a beach! yeah ok.....bit of a dissappointment actually.....not many nice spots on that side! shadowed by the mountains it was also a little cloudy......so we stayed on the road and decided to follow a random sign towards a WADI! I had my revenge.....the road turned to dust...and i made CJD continue....payback for the palm trip!!!!! when we got out of the car in the wadi we were struck by the TOTAL silence....was earie.....first time since we have been here that there has been NO noise.....couple of photos and headed back on the road....we basically drove in a massive anticlockwise oval around the mountains and got back on the road at Masafi and went back to Dubai, stopping at the market, briefly............was an eventful day...and we finally saw some CAMELS!!!!!! couldnt stop to take a piccy though.....i think they were racing camels...........still not seen the illusive wild ones......the search continues!!!!